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To: sylvester80 who wrote (194959)	8/4/2006 11:59:23 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Inept by who? The administration or congress? Administration, no. If you mean the congress, then yes I agree. OF COURSE CLINTON WAS INEPT!!! His signing of Kyoto was a propaganda ploy, and NOT A CREDIBLE ATTEMPT AT FOSTERING A TREATY THAT HE COULD ACTUALLY GET PASSED BY CONGRESS. A president is a leader. He's not supposed to lead his political "troops" along a path they will not follow. It is irrelevant whether the Democrats held the Senate, or the Republicans. EVERYONE OF THE SENATORS REJECTED THE TREATY AS IT WAS SIGNED BY CLINTON. IT WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED EVEN IF THE DEMOCRATS HELD THE SENATE. The treaty should have been revised and the other Kyoto signators informed that the only way the US will sign and ratify it is under those conditions. If they refuse, then out only obligation is moral, and not legal.. IOW, we might have a moral obligation to follow the Kyoto protocols to the extent they do not damage the US economy. But we have no legal obligation to abide by the terms of that treaty. Hawk